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ISO 8859-2, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-2 or less formally as Latin-2, is part 2 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard character encoding defined by ISO. It encodes what it refers to as Latin alphabet no. 2, consisting of 191 characters from the Latin script, each encoded as a single 8-bit code value.
ISO_8859-2:1987, more commonly known by its preferred mime name of ISO-8859-2 (note extra hyphen), is the IANA charset name for this standard used together with the control codes from ISO/IEC 6429 for the C0 (0x00-0x1F) and C1 (0x80-0x9F) parts. Escape sequences (from ISO/IEC 6429 or ISO/IEC 2022) are not to be interpreted. This character set also has the aliases ISO_8859-2, latin2, l2 and csISOLatin2.
This encoding shares a lot of assignments with windows-1250 but is not a strict subset of it (unlike the case with windows-1252 and ISO 8859-1).
These code values can be used in almost any data interchange system to communicate in the following European languages: Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian (in Latin transcription), Serbocroatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian. Furthermore it is suitable to represent some western European languages like Finnish (with the exception of å used in Swedish-Finnish names) or German. When used alone, these latter languages are nominally using ISO 8859-1 encoding, but the needed codepoints are shared with ISO 8859-2, which is an important aspect for multi-lingual documents.
It may be argued that ISO 8859-2 is not really suitable for Romanian because of lack of letters s and t with commas below, containing s and t with cedillas instead. These letters were unified in the first versions of the Unicode standard, meaning that the appearance with cedilla or with comma was treated as a glyph choice rather than as separate characters; fonts intended for use with Romanian should, therefore, have characters with comma below at those code points.
| ISO/IEC 8859-2 | ||||||||||||||||
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| x0 | x1 | x2 | x3 | x4 | x5 | x6 | x7 | x8 | x9 | xA | xB | xC | xD | xE | xF | |
| 0x | unused | |||||||||||||||
| 1x | ||||||||||||||||
| 2x | SP | ! | " | # | sign >$" target="_blank" >* | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | , | - | . | / |
| 3x | : | ; | < | = | > | ? | ||||||||||
| 4x | @ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O |
| 5x | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | | \ | ] | *] | _ |
| 6x | ` | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o |
| 7x | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | | | ~ | ||
| 8x | unused | |||||||||||||||
| 9x | ||||||||||||||||
| Ax | NBSP | Ą | ˘ | Ł | ¤ | Ľ | Ś | § | ¨ | Š | Ş | Ť | Ź | | Ž | Ż |
| Bx | ° | ą | ˛ | ł | ´ | ľ | ś | ˇ | ¸ | š | ş | ť | ź | ˝ | ž | ż |
| Cx | Ŕ | Á | Â | Ă | Ä | Ĺ | Ć | Ç | Č | É | Ę | Ë | Ě | Í | Î | Ď |
| Dx | Đ | Ń | Ň | Ó | Ô | Ő | Ö | × | Ř | Ů | Ú | Ű | Ü | Ý | Ţ | ß |
| Ex | ŕ | á | â | ă | ä | ĺ | ć | ç | č | é | ę | ë | ě | í | î | ď |
| Fx | đ | ń | ň | ó | ô | ő | ö | ÷ | ř | ů | ú | ű | ü | ý | ţ | ˙ |
In the table above, 20 is the regular SPACE character, and A0 is the NO-BREAK SPACE. AD is a SOFT HYPHEN, which should not appear at all in compliant web browsers.
Code values 00-1F, 7F, and 80-9F are not assigned to characters by ISO/IEC 8859-2.
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